There are only a couple of days left. Some competitors have already asked their supporters to switch their vote from them to Grrrl. Right now, she is the only real science blogger with a chance to actually win this. So, if you have not voted yet, or voted for someone else, go vote now. Just click here right now, register (simple and quick) and vote.
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Be the change we want to see...
Today is a big day for American Presidential politics, the so-called Super Tuesday when citizens in 24 states vote or caucus with their fellows to help select the candidates of the two main political parties. I live in one of those 24 states and Mrs. R. and I vote regular as clockwork.
I've been thinking about the Electoral College, that mechanism by which voters in the U.S. indirectly elect their president.
Are you registered? Do you know where to vote? You can find information and register (if you are not) here (this is an Obama site, but it works for everyone):
I shall cast my vote now.
I said it before, but you get more traffic than I do, so I will say it again:
To GrrlScientist:
Go, blog for me, and be my eyes
And ears, beneath Antarctic skies,
Where colonies of penguins dwell
(Creating quite a rancid smell).
And you will sit upon the ice
And snow, and blog in words concise
By rugged glaciers, icy shelves,
For us, who canât be there ourselves.
And I will read your priceless posts
And offer you a thousand toasts,
To health and heart, to pen and ink,
Whatever gift I chance to think.
Iâll wish I could be there to see
The wonders that you write for me,
So eloquent your vivid prose
Iâll feel the cold wind as it blows.
Such alien and foreign climes
Are too much work to cast in rhymes:
If you have schemes you would devise
Then blog for me and be my eyes.
The penguins there will sing and dance:
âGrrlScientist has won the chance!â
To friends up North, youâll say good-byes,
And blog for us, and be our eyes.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2009/09/to-grrlscientist.html